Sadly there are some people who believe that.

NYT says it is real.

I have no way to prove it obviously but nothing in that story was made up.

So wait, I’m not just a grumpy old man who doesn’t like a lot of noise, this is actually a disorder?

Honestly though it’s an interesting question and I wonder if this is just the “natural state.” I really started to feel it after I went RVing for a year. It’s a relatively recent (in the overall span of humanity) development that people would be in groups large enough to make this be an issue.

I was at a hibachi place in December and one of the managers was trying to light a candle. The lighter didn’t work and he made a joke that it “must be made in China. It’ll cost 25% more soon!” A guy at the table said “well you’ll just need to buy one made in Pennsylvania!”

I asked him if he knew of any companies that manufactured disposable lighters in Pennsylvania, and he just said “Trump will make it happen!”

The disconnect is crazy.

It is disabled in the default configuration because you need enough swap space to enable it - which is an overkill amount of swap for any other use case.

You just need to allocate enough swap space for hibernation.

Both of those work on Linux. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Power_management/Suspend_and_hibernate

Hm. So it's like tilling but the nuclear option?

I've seen controlled burns in forests to consume fuel so it does not start a wildfire. Why burn a field like that?